insect

• So because telling someone that you're going to put a stinging insect that might kill him in a coffin with him amounts to torture under Bybee's definition of the term, you must inform the detainee that the insect is a non-lethal stinging insect, even if what you actually intend to do is put a non-stinging insect in the box with him. —  Three Wise Men
• "The Phalloblaster inflates the genitalia with a stream of pressurised alcohol to create the same shape as when the insect was alive." —  WordPress.com News
• The destructive phase of the insect is usually the larval stage, when they're chewing through the plant. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
• Spread by a tiny insect, the Asian citrus psyllid, the disease has devastated entire groves in Florida within a few seasons, and the insect has been found in other citrus producing states, including California and Texas and in the small citrus industry in Louisiana, Putnam said. —  news | LL | http://www.theledger.com
• As this insect is a symbol of rain, its occurrence on mortuary objects is in harmony with the Hopi conception of the dead which will later be explained Pahos, in the form of flat slats with a notched extension at one end were common, but generally were poorly preserved. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744

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